François Bonamy

[1] In 1735 he obtained his medical doctorate, and for nearly fifty years, he taught classes in botany.

At the University of Nantes, he served as regent to the medical faculty, as procureur général and as an academic rector.

[2][3] He was a founding member of the Société d'agriculture de Bretagne and a corresponding member of the Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle.

[2][4] The botanical genus Bonamia (family Convolvulaceae) was named in his honour by Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars.

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